A MEMPCS having high stiffness against bending deformation or distortion is formed by integrating the probe, electronic circuit, circuit connecting pad and dielectric material into a complete unit with flexible multiple-layered substrate structure, and the part of the probe extended outside the dielectric material is further wrapped with a protecting layer to form an reinforced structure for increasing high stiffness to the probe and for preventing environmental dirt and particle from getting into the gap existed between the probes of the MEMPCS.
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1. A micro-electromechanical probe circuit substrate comprising a flexible dielectric material integrated one or more probes, one or more electronic circuits and one or more circuit connecting pads to form as a multiple-layered substrate structure, and a probe supporter provided on back side of the dielectric material served as an elastic cushion effect to the probe exposed on opposite side of the dielectric material, wherein the electronic circuit is formed inside the flexible dielectric material, the probe and the circuit connecting pad are connected to the electronic circuit to form an electric connection, and the probe is arranged to have one end buried inside and tightly wrapped with the dielectric material and the other end with upper portion extended outside the dielectric material and wrapped with a protecting layer by only having its tip portion exposed outside the protecting layer.
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1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a micro-electromechanical probe circuit substrate, particularly the micro-electromechanical probe circuit substrate (hereinafter referred to as MEMPCS) formed by having the probe, electronic circuit, circuit connecting pad and dielectric material integrated into a flexible multiple-layered substrate structure.
2. Description of the Prior Art
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However, since the prior known probe circuit substrate 10 has no protecting structure to wrap the probes 13 to improve its structure strength, the probes 13 is only supported by the joining strength between the bottom side of the probe 13 and the surface of the circuit substrate or the soft sheet plate 11, therefore, the structural strength of the probe 13 of the probe circuit substrate 10 is considerably unstable. Once load is applied on the probe 13 of the probe circuit substrate 10, slanting deformation or sinking to the probes 13 shall always be resulted in as shown in
In view of the above, the major purpose of the invention is to provide a micro-electromechanical probe circuit substrate (MEMPCS) comprising a flexible dielectric material to integrate one or more probes, one or more electronic circuits and one or more circuit connecting pads to form a whole unit with multiple-layered substrate structure, and enables the MEMPCS to possess high resistance against bending deformation and to obtain high flatness.
The features of the MEMPCS include a multiple-layered substrate structure formed with flexible dielectric material inside which electronic circuit is formed, and the probe is connected to the electronic circuit inside the dielectric material to form an electric connection while another end of the probe extends to outside of the dielectric material and is wrapped with a protecting layer that enables only the tip portion of the probe exposed outside the protecting layer. The special designed structure enables the MEMPCS to possess the high strength against side bending deformation, and the effect of preventing environmental dirt and particle from getting into the gap between probes, because environmental dirt and particle always cause distortion of signal transmitting.
Another feature of the MEMPCS is that the electronic circuit formed inside the dielectric material can be arranged into multiple-layers of electronic circuit, and each of the electronic circuit layers can carry resistor, capacitor, inductor or other electronic elements, particularly between the layers of electronic circuit a grounding layer can be arranged to prevent interference.
Another further feature of the MEMPCS is that a probe supporter can be provided on the back side of the flexible dielectric material which is served as an elastic cushion effect to the probe exposed opposite side of the dielectric material to maintain to the desired flatness for the probe of the MEMPCS.
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Accordingly, the basic structure of the MEMPCS 20 of the invention at least comprises a probe 22, an electronic circuit 23, a circuit connecting pad 24 and a dielectric material 21, wherein the electronic circuit 23 is arranged inside the dielectric material 21, and, the probe 22 and the circuit connecting pad 24 can be arranged on one side or both sides and connected to the electronic circuit 23 being buried inside the dielectric material 21 to form an electric connection.
The structure of the probe 22 of the MEMPCS 20 of the invention has the features of having one end of the probe 22 buried inside the dielectric material 21, and tightly wrapped with the dielectric material 21, therefore, in addition to the effect of forming the supporting structure to wrap and support the probe 22 the dielectric material 21 of the MEMPCS 20 also forms the protecting structure for preventing damage of probe 22.
Particularly, although the upper end of the probe 22 extends to outside of the dielectric material 21, the lower part of the upper end of the probe 22 extended outside the dielectric material 21 is further wrapped with a protecting layer 25 to form an reinforced structure by only having the tip portion of the probe 22 being exposed outside the protecting layer 25.
This reinforced structure of protecting layer 25 can enable high stiffness of the probe 22 against side bending deformation as well as the effect of preventing the environmental dirt and particle from getting into the gap between the probes 22 to avoid distortion of signal transmitting when the MEMPCS 20 of the invention is in practical use, and increasing the stiffness of the probe 22.
The MEMPCS 20 of the invention can be designed to have different kinds of electronic circuit 23 arranged inside the dielectric 21. As illustrated in
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As concluded above, the MEMPCS 20 of the invention has the following advantages:
As for the practical application, shown in
Especially, by employing the probe supporter 29, the desired relative flatness of the plane formed by the tips of the probes 22 of the MEMPCS 20 can be maintained. Therefore, when the MEMPCS 20 of the invention and the specially designed printed circuit 30 are installed together to form a micro-electromechanical testing head 40, the desired relative flatness of the plane formed by the tips of the probes 22 can be kept unchanged during installation.
When the chip 50 is to be tested, let the probes 22 of the EMEPCS 20 of the invention touch the connecting pad 51 on the chip 50 to form an electric connection and then to enable a circuit formed by the chip 50 and a tester 60.
When the whole system's circuit forms a closed loop, the electric current and signal can be transmitted out from the tester 60, and then transmitted to the tested chip 50 through the probe 22 of the micro-electromechanical testing head 40. After processed by the IC of chip 50, the signal is transmitted back to the tester 60 through the micro-electromechanical testing head 40, and, by reading the returned signal, the tester 60 can decide whether it's a good chip or a defective chip.
While the invention has been described in its preferred form, it is understood that modification or change of any part of the invention which is apparent to those skilled in the art, and falls within the spirit of the invention shall be covered by the claims herein appended.
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